General Hermeneutics
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A
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Art
Music
Theater
Law
History
Poetry
Literature
Send ———— years (?) ————> Receive
Understanding Gap
• Language
• Culture
• Geographical
• History
Communicator
(Frame of Reference)
Recipient
(Frame of Reference)
Bible Hermeneutics
(Hermeneutics Bridge)
Inspiration ————— years (?) ————— Exegesis
Human Writers
Revelation
Truth
• Linguistic
• Cultural
• Geographical
• Historical
( G A P )
Frame of Reference
(Infinite, Eternal, Omniscient)
GOD
(Sender)
Theology
Illumination
Frame of Reference
Truth
(Finite, Temporal, Limited)
(Receiver)
MAN
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B. tools
process
C. Canonology
Historical Criticism
Textual Criticism
Hermeneutics
Exegesis
Biblical Theology
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(The Infallible Materials)
Canonology
Historical Criticism
Textual Criticism
(The Use of Materials)
God’s
Word
Hermeneutics
Exegesis
=
Biblical Theology
(The Results)
Exposition
Preaching
Teaching
D. Reasons for Church Division:
hermeneutics
interpretation application
uniform
never
E. 1. Three types of interpreters: Legal, False, True
Page 2 & 3
True
Note: Balance between H.S. (spiritual)
and personal effort (intellectual)
F. Methods of Interpretation.
1. Allegorical
2. Mystical
3. Devotional
4. Rationalistic
5. Literal
2.
The Context Group:
The Context Principle
The First Mention Principle
The Comparative Mention Principle
The Progressive Mention Principle
The Complete Mention Principle
The Context Principle
Bible
Testament
Book
Chapter
Passage
Vs.
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B. First
1. subject
Key
Gateway
Guide
First Link
Seed
GENESIS (Sea)
Seed
64 streams (books)
Eccles. 1:7
Revelation (Sea)
Full Tree
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B.
2. six major areas:
Principles
Events
Symbols
OT Persons
Places
Prophecy
GENESIS (Sea)
Seed
64 streams (books)
Eccles. 1:7
NT
REVELATION (Sea)
Full Tree
Genesis covers 40% of human history
Exodus
Genesis
2500 yrs.
40%
500
1000
2000
60%
First Mention Principle
The Sea
64 Streams
The Sea
Genesis: Beginnings
Revelation: Ultimates
Creation (ch. 1)
Redemption
Vs. 1 – Heaven/Earth
Vs. 3 – Light/Darkness
Vs. 11 – Grass/Trees
Vs. 14-16 – Sun/Moon/Stars
Vs. 20-21 – Birds/Fish
Vs. 24-31 – 1st man created
1st beast
21:1 – New Heaven/Earth
21:23 – Lamb/Light
8:7 – 1/3 Grass/Trees
8:12 – 1/3 Sun/Moon/Stars
8:8 – 1/3 Sea Life
19:17 – Fowls of the air
19:11-21 – Last man (Jesus)
destroys last beast
The Devil
1.
2.
First Mention – Genesis 3:1
Observation:
-more subtle than any beast of the field – Vs. 1
-questioner of God’s Word – Vs. 1
-contradicter of God’s Word – Vs. 4-5
-liar – Vs. 4-5
-deceiver & tempter
-destroyed Eve’s life
-on the earth in the garden
3.
Confirmation: 1 Peter 5:8
-he is an adversary
-as a lion
-walking about
-seeking a prey to devour
4.
Interpretation:
The devil is against us looking to catch us off guard through subtle
temptation & deception that would bring a contradiction in our lives
to God’s ways and thus devour us.
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C. Comparative
1. discrepancy
2. parables
D. Progressive
1. added details
2. extension
part
3. one
E. Complete
1. total
ultimate end
2. leaven
3. sin
The Divine Program Group:
The Election Principle
The Covenantal Principle
The Ethnic-Division Mention Principle
The Chronometrical Principle
The Dispensations Redefined
The Breach Principle
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F. Election
1. time eternity foreknowledge
3. nature Essential Moral govern
4. foreknowledge predestination
a. – knowledge
b. – see
c. – tell
d. – ordained
e. – Election
f. – determined
g. – destination
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F. Election (cont’d)
5. Time
P Jacob, Moses, David, Cyrus, Paul
N Pharoah, Saul, King Neb…, Judas
6. Eternity
a. he was under no obligation to elect
anyone for eternity.
b. grace
c. merits
d. accept
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F. Election (cont’d)
6. Eternity
f. nature fathers
ISAAC
ESAU
AMALEK
AGAG
HAMAN
JACOB
ISRAEL
ESTHER
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F. Election (cont’d)
6. Eternity
g. eternity
Saul
Moses
h. predestination
G. Covenantal
1. to cut
2. revocable
irrevocable
3. words, blood, seal
Word to Us Work for Us Work in Us
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H. Ethnic-Division
1. Appointed
2. Ethnic
3. a. Israel
b. Gentiles
4. Church
Adamic
Stars
Noahic
Dust/Sand
Abrahamic
Mosaic
Gentile
Israel
Church
WILD
GOOD
Page 9 & 10
I. Chronometrical
1. Periods
Divisions
3. Past Present Future
5. greater
6. Dispensations
Innocence
Conscience
Government
Promise
Law
Grace
Kingdom
Page 10, 11 & 12
J. Breach
1. promise
time
K. Direct Statement
3. When the literal sense makes sense,
seek no other sense.
L. Christo-Centric
M. Double Reference
The Figures of Speech Group:
The Symbolic Principle
The Typical Principle
The Parabolic Principle
The Allegorical Principle
The Numerical Principle
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N. Symbolic
1. natural spiritual
2. thrown together
a. Lamp
b. Lamb
c. Thirteen
d. Nabal
e. White
f. East
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Rock
Christ
Solidity
Stability
Strength
Foundation
O. Typical
1. examples
3. prophetic
4. shadow
shadow
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N. Typical
6. Classification of Types:
Demonstration:
Sold for Silver
Mediatorship
God’s Dwelling Place
Judgment on Wickedness
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P. Parabolic
1. heavenly natural spiritual
2. reveal conceal
3. moral
symbolic
Mt. 13:33
Resembles
Corrupt Doctrine
False Church
Subtlety, Deceptively
Godhead (Gen. 18:1-6)
Pure Word
The whole of Christianity
Corrupted by mixture
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Q. Allegorical
1. extended
2. allegory
3. Character Factual Allegorical
Mosaic
New
4. salt
good
vine
branches
R. Numerical
1. seal
2. symbolic
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S. Application
one many
2. David honors covenant
Christ’s mercy on us
3. consistent
LION:
Kingship
Royalty
Boldness
SERPENT: Subtlety
Wisdom
Cunning
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T. Moral
1. Indirect
In History
In Poetry
In Parables